Brian, On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 12:34 +0100, Frank Mietke wrote: > > > okay I've found the following in /var/log/messages before the bulk of above > > messages come. It seems that something with the RAID went wrong. > > I don't see anything RAID specific however...
you're right, my mistake. > > > Mar 13 06:17:31 chic2e24 kernel: [3068633.701448] attempt to access beyond > > end of device > > Mar 13 06:17:31 chic2e24 kernel: [3068633.701454] sda: rw=1, > > want=11287722456, limit=7796867072 > > This is pretty self-explanatory. Something tried to read beyond the end > of the disk. Something has a misunderstanding of how big the disk is. That's it why I'm asking. > Is it possible that the disk format process was misled about the disk > size during initialization? > > Andreas, does mkfs do any bounds checking to verify the sanity of the > mkfs request? I.e. does it make sure that if/when you specify a number > of blocks for a filesystem that that many block are available? > > Frank, is it at all possible that the size of the device had somehow > gotten smaller since you first initialized it? I think, no, because all the other OSTs show the same size. Is there a way to request the assumptions of disk size from the MGS/MDS? Frank -- Dipl.-Inf. Frank Mietke | Fakultätsrechen- und Informationszentrum Tel.: 0371 - 531 - 35538 | Fak. für Informatik Fax: 0371 - 531 8 35538 | TU-Chemnitz Key-ID: 60F59599 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
